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Claire �lisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes de R�musat (5 January 1780 - 16 December 1821) was a French woman of letters. She married at sixteen, and was attached to the Empress Josephine as dame du palais in 1802.Talleyrand was among her admirers, and she was generally regarded as a woman of great intellectual capacity and personal grace. The book prospects the historical and secret memoirs of the Empress Josephine (Marie Rose Tascher de La Pagerie,), first Wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.
The second volume of a new and comprehensive biography about one of the history's most charismatic leaders 'a very fine book, which explains Napoleon's extraordinary rise to power and equally meteoric fall, with great erudition, skill and verve' Spectator 'Exemplary scholarship ... A book of meticulous research and beautifully detailed descriptions of Napoleon's military adventures, brings home the full horrific cost of the march on Russia' New Statesman 'Napoleon's legend is so persistent that it confounds the historical reality in the popular imagination. He himself contributed much towards the construction of his own myth, from his youth even until after he fell from power, when, while in...
P.H. Dubé a analysé les 2742 études qui sont consacrées à Mme de Staël depuis 1795, année où la critique réagit aux "Réflexions sur la paix". Cette bibliographie comprend toutes les monographies consacrées a Mme de Staël, ainsi que les articles de journaux et de périodiques, les éditions spécialisées, les articles de recueils et de mélanges, les thèses et les mémoires de ses contemporains.